Descriptor English: | Disaster Vulnerability | ||||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Vulnerabilidad ante Desastres
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Vulnerabilidade a Desastres | ||||||
Descriptor French: | Vulnérabilité Aux Catastrophes | ||||||
Entry term(s): |
Catastrophe Vulnerability Vulnerability |
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Tree number(s): |
SP8.950 |
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Scope note: | 1. Relation between the intensity of the resulting damage and the magnitude of a threat, adverse event or accident. 2. Likelihood of a particular community or geographic area being affected by a potential threat or risk of disaster, established from technical studies. (Material III - Brazil, Ministry of Social Action, 1992). 3. Degree of loss (from 0 to 100 percent) resulting from a potentially damaging phenomenon. (Material II - IDNDR, 1992) |
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Allowable Qualifiers: |
EC economics EH ethnology HI history SN statistics & numerical data |
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DeCS ID: | 34666 | ||||||
Unique ID: | DDCS034666 | ||||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents |
Disaster Vulnerability
- Preferred
Concept UI |
M06142131 |
Scope note | 1. Relation between the intensity of the resulting damage and the magnitude of a threat, adverse event or accident. 2. Likelihood of a particular community or geographic area being affected by a potential threat or risk of disaster, established from technical studies. (Material III - Brazil, Ministry of Social Action, 1992). 3. Degree of loss (from 0 to 100 percent) resulting from a potentially damaging phenomenon. (Material II - IDNDR, 1992) |
Preferred term | Disaster Vulnerability |
Entry term(s) |
Catastrophe Vulnerability Vulnerability |
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